Follow The World's Smallest Traveling Engine!

I need to get that list updated! Hopefully TDbandit is alright.

Bandit is fine, just a smokeless computer and he missed my text message. He called me this morning, and has a good plan for entertaining us with the Traveling Engine. I'll get it in the mail to him.
Rusty

Good to know! I'm excited to see her next adventure.

Cool Deal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any news on the WSTE?

Dang, that's right. I hope everyone here is doing ok!

Any updates on the World's Smallest Traveling Engine? Who has it?

Need to get some more involvement here too. Lists need updating.

Yep, it got pretty quiet. Hope everything and everyone is doing well.

Tee Bee wrote:Yep, it got pretty quiet.  Hope everything and everyone is doing well.  

Yep...was wondering about it too....

Bump. Still quiet. Is the little fella still out there?

Greetings folks!  Well, guess what ??  I received the Traveling .010 Engine today from TD Bandit and everything looks good.  I showed it to my wife and naturally her comment was "Oh that's so cuuute!!  Don't you have enough engines?? You jus' had ta' order another one ... didn'tcha??"     Well, I explained what it was all about and she put the frying pan back in the cabinet  

So as per the rules, here's the photos and as I said, everything looks good.  I guess my only issue is that everything smelled strongly of tobacco smoke so I had to take a few minutes to wipe the case down and leave it sit out a bit. Other than that, I took a few receipt photos and then a few more photos of it compared to my .020 Rivets thinking I might be able to mount it and get in a good flight or two but I think I'd better just build something specifically for it.  I set it beside my Ken Willard design for CO-2 motor but I think I should try building either the Wee Bee by Robert Rahey or the Wee One by Bernie Shulman.

I guess my question is:  How long can/should I hold on to the engine ?  I'm not sure I can have the build complete in less than 60 days given all the issue going on in the world right now.  I couldn't find ... or I jus' plain missed the recommended time limit.  Anyway, thanks everyone for allowing me to be a part of this

Howdy y'all!  Well, it's been a busy few days since the engine arrived.  I decided that this little gem required it's own plane and since I couldn't decide on one, I built both of them ... the Tee-Nee Delta and the Flying License Plate.  I'll post more about them when they're all covered and ready to fly.

Yep! This thread lives again! Carry on.

Howdy y'all! Well, the engine is on its way to Fred via USPS. The tracking number is: 9505 5158 4888 0132 5658 51. It should arrive Friday 05/15/20.

Jim Carter
Titusville, FL

As a very at risk to COVID shut in--- the photo journal of MY Cen Texas area will be significantly curtailed

That Said, I am jazzed to get it and will desperately try to live up to CEF standards of interest and intrigue

next in line please PM your adress ASAP cuz I will only have it this weekend (I assume)

I have not noticed are we each adding in stickers or other memorabilia like we all did with the .049 world traveler?

If we want to adjust the next in line.....I have the resources to get to Andras in Budapest Hungry...this jumps over a lot of USA guys

not suggesting Batjac is not willing to afford the freight

Not heard from Duke in two years....suspect life has him not playing airplane theses days

note....sending to Cescoturbo in Italy should be from EU TO EU country....engines to Italy from US rarely arrive

note #2...and I bet Andras Balogh will verify.....international shipping to Hungry with true description and value will certainly trigger excessive customs and VAT charges for the sender and receiver......


we need to discuss this reality....

Fred I must agree with you..having that nice package with the smallest traveling engine over here to Europe these COVID-19 times would put the program to risk. As written in another post it took 2 months for a package to make it from batjack in Oregon to me in Budapest, even without going through customs. I am not sure how the value of the engine is to be declared as this would enter Hungary temporarily only without import duties to be paid, and leave for Italy etc.afterwards..

So with bleeding heart I would decline to participate, and maybe Cescoturbo in Italy follows me for the same considerations.

I suggest we skip the European leg of the trip this time.

please every body climb in....I brow beat Andras to sign up and I am seriously committed to see this micro engine circumnavigate our CEF world

I have the resources to get it across the Atlantic or Pacific.....but then does the recipient get hosed trying to forward the lil bugger

for those unaware:
Sender has to fill out a customs declaration form.
The country of origin of an item can trigger entry to some foreign countries $$$$ charges like Value Added Taxes (VAT).
Sender usually does not pay this, the recipient does.
Cox TeeDee 0.010 typically sell around or above $200 US....
you may legally assign ANY value to an item shipped...BUT for the insurance you must declare the true replacement cost

so...being nice to your recipient as relates to customs fees and any VAT you declare the lil bugger is $25 and thus max insurance you can buy is $25...

then package is lost or significantly damaged....

Well if it was MY engine I just eat the loss and refund recipient his money (engine sale)

in this case, our host Jacob owns the lil bugger....I would be obligated to compensate him his loss

I sold all my Cox 0.010s

in a no COVID world I never got stung under declaring stuff to Foreign countries and thus the recipients did not get stung paying excessive import duty or VAT fees....

I sincerely want this lil bugger to be Representative of the CEF international family:

England
Hungry
Sweden
Italy
Poland
Thailand
Singapore
Germany
Arkansas....grin

I guess I'm confused a bit. Why are you looking to send it overseas at this point if:

1). You are worried about the risk of loss in the Covid 19 delivery nightmare. I have several lost packages enroute from overseas that are no longer being tracked at this time by the shippers. I wander if I'll ever receive them.
2). Others just down the list from you are located nearby in TX, OK, KS, AZ, etc.

Either way, I'll be ready to play with it and forward it on should it ever arrive here on the TX coast. I'm mostly just glad to see the little engine moving again, either way!

Troy